The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-20
TIE ONO MASK BALL LEAGUE.



some uossip About tho Clubs and tbs Play.
sri Salaries. ----.
Tho Sandusky Daao Dali Club hiss
signed W. +. Irwin as pitcher and man.
agor. Mr.. Irwin gained an excellent rep.
uta.ion for hin work with the Akron Club
last GeGson.
Tha Canton lean will BIO considerably
weakened by tho loss Of A. B. Sanders,
their crack twirlor, who COCA with the
PhIlsaelphins.- Columbus Journal.
Catcher Manyop, late Of Cleveland, and
7, q. Gilman, late Of Toronto, hayo been
signed by the Co.umbuH management,
Ga.vtn and ReRrk have not been e1.
changed rs reported. Charles Allen, Of
that city, Ia an applicant Tor a position as
an Ohio Lea2to umpire.
A Pittsburgh correspondent. Of tho
Sporting Life gays: A brother oil Sam Bark.
10y has been In town during the past two
weeks decorating mirrora In saloons. Al
Galvin'a he hra painted three ball players,
lie szs. One Ia In tho act Of delivering q
ball. 1t is Jimmy. Righ. below Is the In.
scrip.ion: "lnshoots delivered here"
The Circinnati letter In the same paper
has the following: Messrs. w. Il. Nc.
ha!Iey, OF the Allen county Democrat. and
W. n. Melville dropped IN from Lima
this week on Btlli hunt for talent for
that club, tho infant Of the Ohio State
League. ave haven't got a player sign.
ed" said Mr.. Melville, land wc want a
team that will be able to do up the San.
duskys." A deal Ia on tho tapis to trsnu.
fer the ntrong McMicken stsra TO Lima.
1t is Que Of thobeut esmi.ploisasional clubs
in Cincinnati, and was able this Blntner
TO down the shamrock5 In lour straight
games. The stars would doubtless be
able TO hold their own in the Ohio League
andif Harry BaumgartEer can make the
deal II will be done. Lemons and Freek
are the siaIs' best battery. {,
The following from the Kalamazoo cor
respondent oil the Sporting Life Ia lsrgel,
bosh. The writer Is away above Wheel.
ins's salary ist, which 1t Ia said on the
best authority docn not exceed the limit
Here 10 team that will keep Wheeling
with her high priced aggregation, guessing
until October Let. Speaking Of Wheeling
I must agree In EleaBure with YOU
Zlnelvlle and Mansfield correspondents
that II tho Ohio Lesgue comes to an IN,
timely end that to Wheeling will belong
Whatever credit there 10 to 60 with 1t. She
ia setting o plcs so taat that the smaller
cities will have to strain every nerve, dnan
cislly speaking, TO make showing. I'll
another Gaze Of the Western League oil 'S7
and Wheeling Ia the Topeka. No town III
the Ohio Lssguo, not even Wheeling OF
Columbus, can stand a monthly ealGry o.
$3.50, and the write. knows whereof ht
speaks when be asserts that that 10 about
Wheplins's sizs for IS. But they thinl
they have surs penant.winrer, and glory
OF that kind comes high. but II they shout
be made to hustle, Is ! believe they vii
from tho start, and should be headed
Manager Buckenbergsr's name would b.
Dennis, aud hc would wish himself back
in Michigan. Columbus Is not, in m,
opinion, paying any auch cxhorbitant sun
60 Wheeling, and gro getting togsthe. g.
good q tam. Sandu.ky 10 paying NOR
money than kalampzoo; Canton, be-
lieye, abou. tho game. aud will have goot
tasm